Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
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I teach All Day Kindergarten at Madeira Elementary. My passion is teaching literacy skills to young children. We love books, Writer's Workshop, Math and Science notebooks, and being a cool community of learners.You will see us learning and growing together, with love and laughter.
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Seuss is so much fun!!!
Grab the instructions and printable to make these adorable Thing One and Thing Two Hair Headbands for just $1 in my TpT Store.  ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Kindergarten Friends...
Practice your vowels with these games and songs.
:)
Teachers,
There are many fun {free!} vowel goodies on my a e i o u board ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Oh my goodness!
I have been having so much fun creating designs for my classroom light box.
#nerd
Here's a sneak peek at some of the designs:
You can find all of my light box designs here:
You simply print these on transparency paper, cut and insert into the light box.
*Buy your transparency paper at Walmart or Amazon - WAY cheaper than at the office supply stores.* :)
I purchased the Heidi Swapp Light Box at Michaels. It was 40% off, plus I used my teacher ID to get an additional 15% off.
Woohoo!
Almost finished adding 5 more designs to t ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Looking forward to enjoying Ten Timid Ghosts with my students this week.
My students always LOVE this book/activity pack every year...
Grab this super fun Ten Timid Ghosts pack at my TpT store for fun ghost math and literacy activities.
The activities are based on this book:
and are tied to the Math and ELA Common Core Standards.
Included in the pack:
small and large retelling cards with characters
character name picture cards for matching
ghostly ten frames
number and quantity matching cards
subtraction sentence cards to act out story
Super fun for Octobe ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
We started sorting in math last week.
There are SO many great ideas and resources out there for teaching kindergarten students about sorting...
Here are some of my favorite ideas...
Loveeee Kathryn at Kindergarten Kindergarten's post on sorting.
It's great creating an anchor chart
WITH the students...
I like using this sorting pack which includes manipulatives and student sorting books.
more details in this blog post:
or here at Teachers Pay Teachers
I love using my teammate Jonelle's
adorable button sorting mats.
Here is a quick sorting video that in ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
It was super fun getting organized and changing up my classroom theme this summer.
While having an owl theme was a hoot,
it was time for a change.
Excited to share just a few changes.
Shout out to the Target Dollar Spot for a few fun changes in how I welcomed students to Kindergarten this year.
Loving their adorable felt banners - and it's been so fun seeing all of the different ways teachers are using them.
You guys.
How darn cute are these adorable faces?!
Learning in Wonderland had me smiling at these cuties and draining all ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
In honor of National Book Lovers Day, I have to share this previous post about my Book Lovers Club.
It is simply magical.
Seeing these sweet families with their membership cards and huge smiles makes my teacher heart so happy!
In honor of National Book Lovers Day, you can grab my Book Lovers Club product for 20% off through Friday. :)
Oh my goodness...
Did you read my post last week on our
BOOK LOVERS CLUB??
If not, check here!!
Well, the book lovers in my class continue to knock my socks off!
They are already SO great at read to self time.
My heart ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
We have been super busy in math.
My class has reeeeeally loved our addition and subtraction unit - especially story problems.
It has been so rewarding teaching this unit - watching the skill and interest grow!
CHECK THESE STORY PROBLEMS OUT!!
I used this pack to help my students read, solve, and write their own story problems. It also includes an addition and subtraction key word sort.
Some of what's included:
Addition and Subtraction key word sort
8 story problems for students to read, illustrate, solve, and ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Don't you love it when you *try* something new, something that you are unsure your students can accomplish...
and they completely knock your socks off?!
That is exactly what happened last week in math.
My group of kinders love to learn and be challenged. I challenged them to write their own story problems and was SO impressed with their creativity and knowledge of addition and subtraction vocabulary.
Woohoo!
We have our young authors' writing celebration coming up, so we published some of our story problems in these adorable books.
Check out my ..read more
Literacy and Laughter - Celebrating Kindergarten children and the books they love
3y ago
Happy Friday Friends! :)
I am linking up with my Five For Friday.
Teacher Appreciation Giveaway!
I have teamed up with five amazing teachers to host a fun Teacher Appreciation Giveaway.
We are giving away a $30 Gift Card to Target and a $10 Gift Card to TpT.
You can enter by visiting me on Instagram:
@literacyandlaughter
Go Fish!
My students performed in their Kindergarten musical "Go Fish' last week and were ABSOLUTELY adorable!!
Yum!
I am loving all of the new recipes I have found on Pinterest and made this week:
I have to give a s ..read more